Commercially supporting Apache software

2002-05-14 Thread Alex McLintock
Many of the people on this list are interested in Open Source software (well duh!) and may develop with it, or use it with customers. There is a brand new mailing list set up to discuss commercial aspects of supporting Apache Software Foundation's open source products. You can find out more

Re: Perl IDE for Win32

2002-05-14 Thread Jonathan Peterson
David H. Adler wrote: On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 06:19:39PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Ok, first off lets just dispense with any thoughts of following this with a discussion about how emacs rules and foo sucks. However, for any Win32 using brethren we have they might like to have a look at

Re: Sharp Zaurus

2002-05-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In that case, if anyone's interested, I might have to organise an emergency meeting on a more convenient day (on which I don't have to leave early and get back to Cambridge) sometime. Mike it when I'm in Cambridge. Hopefully later this month. --

second-hand telephone switchboard/exchange eqpt

2002-05-14 Thread Sue Spence
Does anyone have any tips on a good place to look for this sort of equipment? We have 3 buildings that we'd like to have share telephone line(s).

Perl/COM/DCOM

2002-05-14 Thread Rhys Hopkins
I have been asked to investigate replacing an existing application written in VB that talks to another application on the same Win32 box using COM/DCOM, with an application written in perl on another (linux) box. It would still need to talk to the second application via DCOM. Can anyone tell me

Linux Advert on TV

2002-05-14 Thread Nik Butler
So IBM have their new advert out. It promotes Unix and a penguin as mascot can be seen in the bacground, heck even on eof the sirts sports the word ( not quite seen ) micros and it ends with Linux. so any other in joikes to be spotted?

penderel

2002-05-14 Thread alex
thanks very much to tantrix for getting penderel fired up again to try to stop it from crashing again i'm going to replace a lot of the hardware. on saturday i'll buy: . a cheap athlon mx chip . a motherboard . a graphics card . a network card . a case (probably with psu, although i have one

Re: RealNames RIP

2002-05-14 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sad stuff; RealNames who were the only name resolution system to deal with non-ascii were effectively snuffed out by Microsoft a few days ago when they decided not to renew RealNames's contract. Oh come on Paul. Whilst I hold no brief for Microsoft,

Re: Sharp Zaurus

2002-05-14 Thread Lucy McWilliam
On 12 May 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In that case, if anyone's interested, I might have to organise an emergency meeting on a more convenient day (on which I don't have to leave early and get back to Cambridge) sometime. Mike it when I'm in

[ANNOUNCE] Punting, Sunday 19 May

2002-05-14 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello. I hope this manages to get through in time (penderel is ill). Some of us have been discussing new and exciting types of emergency meets. We have finally become organised, and booked two punts in Oxford for 4--6pm this Sunday, 19 May. This gives us 12 places in total. If you would like

Re: RealNames RIP

2002-05-14 Thread the hatter
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: RealNames who were the only name resolution system to deal with non-ascii Apart from iDNS[1]. the hatter [1] and possibly several other methods, but it would seem sensible to me that if DNS can't handle non-ascii, then the place to fix this would

Re: penderel

2002-05-14 Thread the hatter
On 14 May 2002, alex wrote: you could help by bringing a graphics card or network card to the technical meeting, if you have one spare. I'll happily donate one of my favourite 3C905s which I seem to be accumulating. And I'd assume you want AGP graphics, rather than PCI ? I suspect I can